Political Economy

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NYPD Prey on Black and Brown Youth
26 Jun 2018
New York City police are using a 42,000-name “gang” database to prey on Black and brown youth, said Sadiki “Bro Shep” Olugbala, of the Stop The Raids Coalition.
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Poor People’s Campaign Aims to Change “Political Narrative”
26 Jun 2018
The Poor People’s Campaign seeks to “change the political narrative in this country,” said Rev Graylon Hagler, senior pastor of the Plymouth United Church of Christ, who as been arrested three time
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Trump Seeks to Woo North Korea from China
26 Jun 2018
The Trump administration’s peace overtures to North Korea are rooted in the U.S. desire to have a “friendly regime on China’s border,” said Dr.
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U.S. in “Imperial Retreat”
21 Jun 2018
Donald Trump’s willingness to contemplate U.S. troop withdrawal from South Korea is more evidence of “imperial retreat,” said Dr.
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“Every White Man For Himself”
18 Jun 2018
The Atlanticist bloc, with NATO as its military arm, is coming undone, said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition.
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Racist Roots of Empire
18 Jun 2018
US imperialism is rooted in the nation’s history of slavery and white settler expansionism.
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Dems Oppose Peace on Korean Peninsula
18 Jun 2018
“It’s really disgusting to see Democratic Congress members and senators condemning an obvious step towards peace,” said David Swanson, director of World Beyond War.
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A Premonition of Gentrification in Harlem
12 Jun 2018
“The elders” told Jenifer Wilson that there would soon be an assault on Harlem “to take the community from us, all the spaces.” So Wilson founded the Sisters’ Uptown Bookstore
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Mumia on “King Donald The First”
11 Jun 2018
In a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller, President Trump argued that he has the right to pardon himself.
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Hurricane Aid Earmarked for Puerto Rico Debt Service
11 Jun 2018
The appointed board that controls Puerto Rico’s finances is trying to divert hurricane relief aid to pay off the islands debt, according to a report by the Center for Economic and Policy Relief.